Concerning Death by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“Again she saith: I give unimaginable joys on earth, certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death. This thou hast known.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Christ came to me, alone and sorrowful, And offered me a cross, saying to me, ‘I have great joys to give most bountiful. Carry this through the world, and when the sea Of death is past, then is prepared for thee A house of many mansions.’ My desire Hid not from me the vileness of his plea:– ‘Thou has a guerdon, is it not for hire?'”
  2. “Behold her bending down above thee, a flame of blue, all-touching, all-penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth and her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers, and think that all thy grossness shall presently fall from thee as thou leanest to her embrace, caught up into her love as a dewdrop into the kisses of the sunrise.”
  3. “Is not the ecstasy of Nuit the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of her body? All that hath hurt thee was that thou knewest it not, and as that fadeth from thee thou shalt know as never yet how all is one.”
  4. “My friend, when thou hast a mirror, some of all this shalt thou see, but not all; and when thou hast a lover some deal wilt thou hear, but not all.”
  5. “An Epistle of Baphomet to the Illustrious Damozel Ana Wright, Companion of the Holy Graal, Shining Like the Moon. CONCERNING DEATH That She and Her Sisters May Bring Comfort to All Them That Are Nigh Death, and Unto Such as Love Them.”